0:00 Chargers at Chiefs 2:04 Patriots at Bills 3:02 Redskins at Steelers 4:49 Saints at Broncos 5:52 Bengals at Colts 7:07 Niners at Raiders 8:17 Lions at Bears 9:14 Bucs at Falcons 10:17 Vikings at Cardinals 11:19 Jets at Packers 13:09 Rams at Seahawks 15:07 Browns at Eagles 17:10 Cowboys at Giants
@@michaelbanaszak7775 everything looked good for the 'Bolts until Houston came to town in the divisional round. Though the Oilers were fresh off an upset win in Miami, they were beat up and missing key players. San Diego had much in place (except a running game). Too bad that the Chargers' Dan Fouts' favorite receiver that day was Oilers' DB Vernon Perry (4 int's).
@@anthonybrooks5040 everyone was thinking the chargers who gave the steelers problems that season was gonna clash for the afc title game but it wasn't too be as Pittsburgh beat the oilers and won their 4th Lombardi trophy. ...
It’s interesting that they never fulfilled the immense promise of their 1976 season. Tensions between Fairbanks and the Sullivans killed the mojo and both Grogan and the whole team were horribly inconsistent. Raymond Berry fixed a lot of those problems for a while
@@russellseilhamer4552 The 1976 loss to the Raiders was infamous. But they also really laid an egg in the 1978 playoff loss at home to the Oilers. This 1979 team was 7-3 at this point. Harry Kalas just told us that the Pats were one of the top 3 teams in the NFL. They are about to lose 4 of 5...
Ten years earlier, the Redskins and Steelers met at 'ole Pitt Stadium where Washington won, 14-7. The significance? The coaches. Chuck Noll was in his rookie season, trying to build a winner out of a long time loser (Wow, how things had changed). Washington had the legendary Vince Lombardi come out of retirement to build a champion. He started but obviously never finished, succumbing to cancer less than a year later (1970).
It was 1978 Patriots that would be biggest mystery. 1976 playoff loss at Oakland was Oakland's toughest playoff opponent in their three playoff victories, and somebody had to lose that game that could have gone either way. 1977 Patriots started out 0-2 after the left side of their Offensive Line held out, then went 9-3 the rest of the way. I mean you're right about the teasing part, I am just trying to figure it out, especially the 1978 playoff loss 31-14 to the Oilers. I can understand losing to the Oilers, but that badly? Was it 24-0 at one point? Losing to the Oilers by that much, and outdoors? I can actually explain Patriots' 1979 and '80 seasons just as their 1976 and '77 seasons can be explained, as in 1979 LT Leon Gray was gone to Houston and replaced by disappointing LT#62 Dwight Wheeler. On the other side, RT#74 Shelby Jordan was a pass-blocking specialist who just happened to have a career year run-blocking in 1978. In 1979-'80, Shelby Jordan went back into pass-blocking specialist mode. So in 1979-'80, with both OTs not able to run-block, and RG#61 Sam Adams always being quite effective run-blocking on-the-move-in-space-downfield but not effective drive-run-blocking straight ahead at the line of scrimmage, that's two-and-a-half run-blockers whose run-blocking is a weakness. that was why patriots' running game in 1979-'80 was not effective at all. But I still can't explain being destroyed by the Oilers in that home playoff loss in 1978.
Never ....he didn't do it over a long enough period of time unfortunately. Lynn Swann barely got in and he was amazing from day one. The thinking of the dumbasses voting for the hall have forgotten it was a run oriented league. And the patriots had the third best running attack in the entire 70"s
@@theraven3481 Both are/were great, with Lynn Swann of course already being in Canton. Swann benefited from the exposure/luxury of being on a flat out great team, still to this day, the greatest team I've watched in the NFL. Stanley Morgan played on some good teams in New England, but of course, they can't/couldn't match the Steelers player for player. His overall numbers are better than Swann's by far, but with around five more seasons also. Swann is/was one of the best "big game" players to ever play in the NFL, and that's really what makes him a cut above some of the rest...
I remember 'FIRECRACKER' Morgan still showing in his twilight in 1989 that he was still just as capable of the spectacular TD catch as he was as a rookie in 1977. But in 1989, you are limited as a WR when Marc Wilson of all people is your QB. Stanley Morgan was the human equivalent of a Maserati back then, and was an explosive game-breaker and we know his three gears- fast, faster, and fastest. 'FIRECRACKER' Morgan was also a road runner and a rocket with deluxe open field moves. through his first six NFL seasons, he never averaged less than 20.9 yards per catch. Over time, Morgan would eventually run more underneath & across routes than deep posts and go routes (giving DBs a breath of fresh air), but could still turn the 10-yard pass into 80-yard score in the blink of an eye, and he was always an exceptional blocker. In the latter part of Morgan's career, he would still stretch out his body, added a few inside moves to his extraordinarily fluid outside feints, and increased his bag of tricks to include possession and intermediate routes after his jets began to cool. but even in the late 1980s he still had that brilliant home-run burst and was still just as fluid & agile as they came. In 1988 (October vs Green Bay), Chuck Cecil knocked good-hands Morgan motionless for 15 minutes as Morgan saw his career flash before him. But Morgan sustained only a severe concussion and was back playing the very next week, and even the rest of that season he still had that deceptive stride that made him dangerous on the out patterns (his favorite), but he still was also running the 14-to16-yard ins with fluid grace that 1988 season even following the Cecil concussion as well, to keep new England in playoff race until final week of season. Morgan's Opening Day 32-yard TD catch in 1989 was highlighted during the opening of the highlights of the entire 1989 NFL season in review. Even in his final NFL season in 1990 in Indianapolis, Stanley Morgan turned his 23 catches into 5 TDs. If only the second half of his career had he not been on teams going downhill so fast.
0:00 San Diego Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs 2:03 New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills 3:02 Washington Redskins at Pittsburgh Steelers 4:50 New Orleans Saints at Denver Broncos 5:53 Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Colts 7:07 San Francisco 49ers at Oakland Raiders (The last NFL Battle of the Bay Area game until 2000) 8:17 Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears 9:13 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Atlanta Falcons 10:18 Minnesota Vikings at St. Louis Cardinals (Bud Wilkinson's was win as a short lived Cardinals head coach) 11:19 New York Jets at Green Bay Packers 13:10 Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks (The game where the Rams held the Seahawks to -7 yards of total offense) 15:06 Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles (Harold Carmichaels breaks an NFL record for catching at least 1 pass in his 106th consecutive game) 17:10 Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants Not among the highlights on NFL Week 10 1979 This is the NFL (NFL Films) but among the highlights on Inside The NFL (HBO) was ABC NFL MNF Week 10: Houston Oilers at Miami Dolphins (the rematch of the greatest MNF game ever played - Week 12 1978 and 1978 AFC Wild Card Playoffs)
Pardon me as I know i have said this before, but apparently Hall of Fame voters should hear this...George Martin, the NFL's all-time leader in TDs scored by a D-lineman, would have actually scored even another TD in a 1985 game at Houston, but Lawrence Taylor just barely scooped it up before Martin could. Of course, LT had the right to scoop it up because it was LT who forced the fumble and sack. But Martin came that close to scoring again. 'MARATHON' Martin was a superb athlete with excellent all-out big-play speed and upfield burst and quickness to force the big play, who was a very alert player with good techniques. He would hang back on screens and swings instead of charging ahead, so you could not outsmart him and fool him. What I thought was also so great about his 1986 accomplishments was not just straight-arming the big Elway in regular season game or sacking Elway in SB 21 in 2nd quarter to close the 10-7 Denver lead to 10-9, but that as smart a run-defender as 'MARATHON' Martin was, it was still an uphill battle for George Martin to be a true anchor of a run-defender throughout his (then)10-year career before 1986, until he finally became also a great run-defender in 1986, and it also helped that he always knew to dig deep into his ample bag of tricks when going up against bigger OTs.
That 1985 play that "MARATHON" Martin could have scored yet another TD on can be seen on video titled "New York Giants vs Houston Oilers 1985 Week 14" @1:08:35-44. It turns out that Gary Reasons forced the fumble.
The Jets had a bunch of talented running backs in 1979: Clark Gaines, Bruce Harper, Kevin Long, Scott Dierking, and Tom Newton. Also, I can't even fathom what the Rams Did to the Seahawks offense. You will never see anything like that ever again.
The 1967 Oakland Raiders opened their season by stifling the Denver Donkeys offense, limiting them to only 3 first downs, 2 yards per rush and MINUS 53 yards passing! The Donks finished with -5 yards of total offense and never got as much as a sniff of the end zone in a 51-0 humiliating loss.
David Cobb; Yikes! Of course the Broncos were pretty bad back then - even the expansion Dolphins beat them pretty soundly in ‘66 and ‘67 and K C just demolished them too (52-9). Tough year for Lou Saban’s boys!
@@denisceballos9745 Lou Saban made it very clear, " They're killing me Whitey, they're killing me "! The expansion Dolphins lost in Denver 17-7 in their second game versus the Broncos but the meeting in Miami was a 24-7 loss, the Broncos Miami blues continued in '67 when the Dolphins won their lone meeting with Denver, 35-21.
@@davidcobb2693 Eventually I think Lou Saban built quite formidable parts to those Denver teams except for QB. Had QB Marlin Briscoe been retained after the 1968 season, the rest of Denver's team was ready to help take a shot at the whole thing. From 1969-'72, Denver's defense compiled 180 sacks (Dallas Doomsday Defense was a distant 2nd in the entire NFL those seasons with 155), and on offense the Denver running game those years would put Floyd Little in the Hall of Fame. Oh what might have been in Denver had Marlin Briscoe been kept as a QB following 1968, but then again, of what might have been in Oakland had DE Tombstone Jackson been retained after 1966.
@13:26-34, Ram LT#77 'AWESOME DOMINATING GIANT' Doug France was fantastic getting over there on the opposite side of the field to deliver the shot. @13:54-58, #86 Charlie Young was never going to short-change anyone on his effort in all parts of his play. @14:11, Drew Hill was discussed on "1981 NFL Week 6" when a reply was made to fellow youtube user "Shawn C T" acknowledged Drew Hill. @14:38 & 14:52, Ram DT#79 Mike Fanning in 1979 helped give them their most complete Defensive Line since 1974.
😄, my man Isaac Curtis, with his patented behind the back spike from his knees. Without question, he's another criminally underrated NFL WR, who's underappreciated because of where he played during his career, as good as anyone else during his era...
Issac Curtis was an amazing WR. How can we have an NFL without a Curtis, Cliff Branch and Harold Jackson not in the HOF. Rice is GOAT? He didn’t play in the bump and run era. I think Paul Warfield, Charley Taylor would have something to say about that. Warfield and Taylor were artists in the open field after the catch. I’ve seen highlights of Warfield running full stride in double coverage, stopping on a dime and leaping in the air to make catches. Back in the day you had to earn it
'CIRCUS' Curtis was fluid with the jet-speed and moves to whip man-to-man coverage in ways Hall of Famers Harold Carmichael, Andre Reed, Marvin Harrison (to name but a few) could not beat man-to-man coverage. 'CIRCUS' Curtis was a burner down the sidelines and on the down-and-in patterns, but also had the sure hands and the size to contest for the football, and the desire to go for tough catches over the middle. Too bad his 1981 knee injury prevented him from being his vintage self on that 1981 Bengal team.
@@russellseilhamer4552 I have said before that if I was building a team that Warfield and Taylor would be my starting WRs. Someone else can have Rice. I'll take Branch and Alworth as the backups.
@@JAWrightonline Gosh, I don't even want to think what could have happened had we used "BAZOOKA" Wiliams' bazooka as such over there, or even had we threatened them with doing so......
Out of the 1979 season! This was the most memorable week of the whole season! The L.A Rams season turn on their dominate performance in the Kingdome against Seattle and Harold Carmichael record! Always wanted to see the Jets Packers game highlights!
@17:28-29, NY Giants LB#55 Brain Kelley was a smart player who seldom made a mistake. He didn't have great range or agility, but had improved his strength and did well against the inside running game. Kelley had the least ability compared to teammates Harry Carson and Brad Van Pelt, so Kelley had to get by on his smarts. Kelley made the defensive calls and led Carson in the right direction. As a pass-defender, Kelley made quick reads as well. @17:31-35, NYG DE#75 'MARATHON' MARTIN was too smart to be fooled by what could have been a fairly convincing play-action fake to and by Dorsett. A reply was made to fellow youtube user 'Anthony Brooks' reflecting the career of 'MARATHON' Martin in one of the other posted comments underneath this same video. @17:45-46, rookie QB Simms unphased by Cowboy pass-rusher and Simms' career was reviewed on a reply underneath "NFL 1979 Week 9", as it was a reply to fellow youtube user 'Nicky DePaola Entertainer'. @17:48-50, WR Johnny Perkins was big and stronger than most WRs and had good hands & speed. Most of Perkins' catches came in the short-to-intermediate range and caught more passes by out-muscling defenders than by out-running them. @18:04-05, Mendenhall caught in a Cowboy-vice of two exceptional pass-blockers in John Fitzgerald and Herbert Scott, but @18:11-12, Drew Pearson gets caught in a Giant-vice of a gambling type of CB#24 Terry Jackson and FS#25 Ray Oldham who got by in his 10-year NFL career on desire & determination and was more of an ideal SS (but Giants' SS#28 Beasley Reece was also more ideal at SS than FS), as the closer Oldham was to the action, the better, and there he helped separate Pearson from the football. @18:27-31, NYG RG#68 J.T. Turner was consistently solid in all areas of blocking at this point in his career as he was in his prime. In his latter years, his pass-blocking remained dependable. QB Simms remained very adept at throwing to RBs in his later years when those great mid-1980s Giants teams weren't great at WR. @18:58-19:01, Pearson makes it through Jackson and Oldham that time as the gambling Jackson was inconsistent and the more field that Oldham had to cover, the worse it was for him (that was why Oldham was more ideal at SS where he finished his career in 1980-'82 for Detroit, and not at FS). @19:21-24, NYG RDE#70 Gary Jeter stopped in his tracks by Cowboy great LT#67 Pat Donovan (and I suspect Donovan did the same to Jeter @18:06 though the view @18:06 was obstructed). @19:24-30, you see the talent in Gary Jeter (whose production somehow never equaled that talent). @19:31, Van Pelt strips Dorsett of the football but @19:32, Dorsett was no fumbler. @19:34-35, Cowboy WR#86 'CALIFORNIA QUAKE' Johnson was an all-out player fully committed to blocking and should have been 1st-string over Tony Hill. @19:38-39, Oldham needed that desire & determination to tackle Dorsett.
Randy Grdishar was a mobile diagnostician who was always in the right place and the right time and had angles of pursuit down to rudimentary geometry, and made plays all over the field. Gradishar had an overload of feel & instincts, and processed plays with computer-like efficiency, and was also physically dominant and shed & filled with authority. Gradishar was an all-time great.
15:50-these were the days of not only tear-away jerseys, but also mesh. They were most commonly (and best) worn by the Eagles. I believe Ron Jaworski donned his at "the Vet" in that chilly NFC championship win over the Cowboys the following season.
Been a Seahawks fan for years and it stumps me in this 1979 clip against the Rams of their Mascot. I don't remember him in that outfit. What was his name if anyone knows? It looks hilarious. I wonder if it is just some staff member or someone who obtained that costume and they let on the field to cheer the crowd in that thing. Lol.
@@arthurbishop3173 John Stallworth was fast & fluid, a smooth technician whose precise routes, surgical hands and great body control made the Steeler passing game a successful operation well into the 1980s. He could move the chains, make great adjustments and sky for the ball, hit the big home run, and was elite blocking downfield or even blocking outside LBs well into his twilight years. He still made it all look so easy, going deep, or in traffic, or along the sidelines, or he would fight bump-&-running CBs on crisp short routes and for 8-yard buttonhooks and he know what he could always do after the catch.
Nice additions Brian. The artist did a nice job capturing Hodges likeness on the RedMan. Have a great day!
0:00 Chargers at Chiefs
2:04 Patriots at Bills
3:02 Redskins at Steelers
4:49 Saints at Broncos
5:52 Bengals at Colts
7:07 Niners at Raiders
8:17 Lions at Bears
9:14 Bucs at Falcons
10:17 Vikings at Cardinals
11:19 Jets at Packers
13:09 Rams at Seahawks
15:07 Browns at Eagles
17:10 Cowboys at Giants
Not shown:
Oilers at Dolphins (Monday)
Once again Comrade Dobler! Thank you! Love watching these NFL week in reviews!
Classic comeback led by Captain America against the G men
Chargers won the division in 1979!
Big whoop
That 1979 team was probably the Chargers' best team in franchise history....excellent mix of both offense and defensive performances...
@@michaelbanaszak7775 everything looked good for the 'Bolts until Houston came to town in the divisional round. Though the Oilers were fresh off an upset win in Miami, they were beat up and missing key players. San Diego had much in place (except a running game). Too bad that the Chargers' Dan Fouts' favorite receiver that day was Oilers' DB Vernon Perry (4 int's).
Actually the oilers beat The Broncos!!!
@@anthonybrooks5040 everyone was thinking the chargers who gave the steelers problems that season was gonna clash for the afc title game but it wasn't too be as Pittsburgh beat the oilers and won their 4th Lombardi trophy. ...
The Patriots of 1976-1980 were a perennial tease.
It’s interesting that they never fulfilled the immense promise of their 1976 season. Tensions between Fairbanks and the Sullivans killed the mojo and both Grogan and the whole team were horribly inconsistent. Raymond Berry fixed a lot of those problems for a while
@@russellseilhamer4552 The 1976 loss to the Raiders was infamous. But they also really laid an egg in the 1978 playoff loss at home to the Oilers. This 1979 team was 7-3 at this point. Harry Kalas just told us that the Pats were one of the top 3 teams in the NFL. They are about to lose 4 of 5...
Ten years earlier, the Redskins and Steelers met at 'ole Pitt Stadium where Washington won, 14-7. The significance? The coaches. Chuck Noll was in his rookie season, trying to build a winner out of a long time loser (Wow, how things had changed). Washington had the legendary Vince Lombardi come out of retirement to build a champion. He started but obviously never finished, succumbing to cancer less than a year later (1970).
It was 1978 Patriots that would be biggest mystery. 1976 playoff loss at Oakland was Oakland's toughest playoff opponent in their three playoff victories, and somebody had to lose that game that could have gone either way. 1977 Patriots started out 0-2 after the left side of their Offensive Line held out, then went 9-3 the rest of the way. I mean you're right about the teasing part, I am just trying to figure it out, especially the 1978 playoff loss 31-14 to the Oilers. I can understand losing to the Oilers, but that badly? Was it 24-0 at one point? Losing to the Oilers by that much, and outdoors? I can actually explain Patriots' 1979 and '80 seasons just as their 1976 and '77 seasons can be explained, as in 1979 LT Leon Gray was gone to Houston and replaced by disappointing LT#62 Dwight Wheeler. On the other side, RT#74 Shelby Jordan was a pass-blocking specialist who just happened to have a career year run-blocking in 1978. In 1979-'80, Shelby Jordan went back into pass-blocking specialist mode. So in 1979-'80, with both OTs not able to run-block, and RG#61 Sam Adams always being quite effective run-blocking on-the-move-in-space-downfield but not effective drive-run-blocking straight ahead at the line of scrimmage, that's two-and-a-half run-blockers whose run-blocking is a weakness. that was why patriots' running game in 1979-'80 was not effective at all. But I still can't explain being destroyed by the Oilers in that home playoff loss in 1978.
@@plntntvzn Grogan was always streaky. He got benched in the Oilers game.
When is Stanley Morgan gonna' make the NFL HOF, as he is/was as fine of a WR as any other when he played...
Never ....he didn't do it over a long enough period of time unfortunately. Lynn Swann barely got in and he was amazing from day one. The thinking of the dumbasses voting for the hall have forgotten it was a run oriented league. And the patriots had the third best running attack in the entire 70"s
@@theraven3481 Both are/were great, with Lynn Swann of course already being in Canton. Swann benefited from the exposure/luxury of being on a flat out great team, still to this day, the greatest team I've watched in the NFL.
Stanley Morgan played on some good teams in New England, but of course, they can't/couldn't match the Steelers player for player. His overall numbers are better than Swann's by far, but with around five more seasons also.
Swann is/was one of the best "big game" players to ever play in the NFL, and that's really what makes him a cut above some of the rest...
@@ShawnC.T. I couldn't have said it better
I remember 'FIRECRACKER' Morgan still showing in his twilight in 1989 that he was still just as capable of the spectacular TD catch as he was as a rookie in 1977. But in 1989, you are limited as a WR when Marc Wilson of all people is your QB. Stanley Morgan was the human equivalent of a Maserati back then, and was an explosive game-breaker and we know his three gears- fast, faster, and fastest. 'FIRECRACKER' Morgan was also a road runner and a rocket with deluxe open field moves. through his first six NFL seasons, he never averaged less than 20.9 yards per catch. Over time, Morgan would eventually run more underneath & across routes than deep posts and go routes (giving DBs a breath of fresh air), but could still turn the 10-yard pass into 80-yard score in the blink of an eye, and he was always an exceptional blocker. In the latter part of Morgan's career, he would still stretch out his body, added a few inside moves to his extraordinarily fluid outside feints, and increased his bag of tricks to include possession and intermediate routes after his jets began to cool. but even in the late 1980s he still had that brilliant home-run burst and was still just as fluid & agile as they came. In 1988 (October vs Green Bay), Chuck Cecil knocked good-hands Morgan motionless for 15 minutes as Morgan saw his career flash before him. But Morgan sustained only a severe concussion and was back playing the very next week, and even the rest of that season he still had that deceptive stride that made him dangerous on the out patterns (his favorite), but he still was also running the 14-to16-yard ins with fluid grace that 1988 season even following the Cecil concussion as well, to keep new England in playoff race until final week of season. Morgan's Opening Day 32-yard TD catch in 1989 was highlighted during the opening of the highlights of the entire 1989 NFL season in review. Even in his final NFL season in 1990 in Indianapolis, Stanley Morgan turned his 23 catches into 5 TDs. If only the second half of his career had he not been on teams going downhill so fast.
@@plntntvzn I don’t remember was Stanley Morgan a true burner or did you just have good speed. Sort of a 4.5 guy
0:00 San Diego Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs
2:03 New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills
3:02 Washington Redskins at Pittsburgh Steelers
4:50 New Orleans Saints at Denver Broncos
5:53 Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Colts
7:07 San Francisco 49ers at Oakland Raiders (The last NFL Battle of the Bay Area game until 2000)
8:17 Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears
9:13 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Atlanta Falcons
10:18 Minnesota Vikings at St. Louis Cardinals (Bud Wilkinson's was win as a short lived Cardinals head coach)
11:19 New York Jets at Green Bay Packers
13:10 Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks (The game where the Rams held the Seahawks to -7 yards of total offense)
15:06 Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles (Harold Carmichaels breaks an NFL record for catching at least 1 pass in his 106th consecutive game)
17:10 Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants
Not among the highlights on NFL Week 10 1979 This is the NFL (NFL Films) but among the highlights on Inside The NFL (HBO) was ABC NFL MNF Week 10: Houston Oilers at Miami Dolphins (the rematch of the greatest MNF game ever played - Week 12 1978 and 1978 AFC Wild Card Playoffs)
That rematch turned out to be a snooze fest, as the Oilers prevailed three field goals to two.
@@Bruce12867, more like a baseball score if u ask me.
17:35 George Martin was grossly underrated. He spent his entire career being an absolute beast!
Pardon me as I know i have said this before, but apparently Hall of Fame voters should hear this...George Martin, the NFL's all-time leader in TDs scored by a D-lineman, would have actually scored even another TD in a 1985 game at Houston, but Lawrence Taylor just barely scooped it up before Martin could. Of course, LT had the right to scoop it up because it was LT who forced the fumble and sack. But Martin came that close to scoring again. 'MARATHON' Martin was a superb athlete with excellent all-out big-play speed and upfield burst and quickness to force the big play, who was a very alert player with good techniques. He would hang back on screens and swings instead of charging ahead, so you could not outsmart him and fool him. What I thought was also so great about his 1986 accomplishments was not just straight-arming the big Elway in regular season game or sacking Elway in SB 21 in 2nd quarter to close the 10-7 Denver lead to 10-9, but that as smart a run-defender as 'MARATHON' Martin was, it was still an uphill battle for George Martin to be a true anchor of a run-defender throughout his (then)10-year career before 1986, until he finally became also a great run-defender in 1986, and it also helped that he always knew to dig deep into his ample bag of tricks when going up against bigger OTs.
That 1985 play that "MARATHON" Martin could have scored yet another TD on can be seen on video titled "New York Giants vs Houston Oilers 1985 Week 14" @1:08:35-44. It turns out that Gary Reasons forced the fumble.
@@plntntvznyour case is both duly and very well noted. Plain and simple to the voters: "Marathon" Martin should be enshrined in Canton!
The Jets had a bunch of talented running backs in 1979: Clark Gaines, Bruce Harper, Kevin Long, Scott Dierking, and Tom Newton. Also, I can't even fathom what the Rams Did to the Seahawks offense. You will never see anything like that ever again.
Yes, the Rams completely shut down the Seahawks - limiting them to -7 yards total and only 1 first down - in the Kingdome. Unreal.
The 1967 Oakland Raiders opened their season by stifling the Denver Donkeys offense, limiting them to only 3 first downs, 2 yards per rush and MINUS 53 yards passing! The Donks finished with -5 yards of total offense and never got as much as a sniff of the end zone in a 51-0 humiliating loss.
David Cobb; Yikes! Of course the Broncos were pretty bad back then - even the expansion Dolphins beat them pretty soundly in ‘66 and ‘67 and K C just demolished them too (52-9). Tough year for Lou Saban’s boys!
@@denisceballos9745 Lou Saban made it very clear, " They're killing me Whitey, they're killing me "! The expansion Dolphins lost in Denver 17-7 in their second game versus the Broncos but the meeting in Miami was a 24-7 loss, the Broncos Miami blues continued in '67 when the Dolphins won their lone meeting with Denver, 35-21.
@@davidcobb2693 Eventually I think Lou Saban built quite formidable parts to those Denver teams except for QB. Had QB Marlin Briscoe been retained after the 1968 season, the rest of Denver's team was ready to help take a shot at the whole thing. From 1969-'72, Denver's defense compiled 180 sacks (Dallas Doomsday Defense was a distant 2nd in the entire NFL those seasons with 155), and on offense the Denver running game those years would put Floyd Little in the Hall of Fame. Oh what might have been in Denver had Marlin Briscoe been kept as a QB following 1968, but then again, of what might have been in Oakland had DE Tombstone Jackson been retained after 1966.
13:16
That Seahawks' mascot is seriously giving me the creeps.
I forgot about Elvis Peacock. His run here was fantastic.
@13:26-34, Ram LT#77 'AWESOME DOMINATING GIANT' Doug France was fantastic getting over there on the opposite side of the field to deliver the shot. @13:54-58, #86 Charlie Young was never going to short-change anyone on his effort in all parts of his play. @14:11, Drew Hill was discussed on "1981 NFL Week 6" when a reply was made to fellow youtube user "Shawn C T" acknowledged Drew Hill. @14:38 & 14:52, Ram DT#79 Mike Fanning in 1979 helped give them their most complete Defensive Line since 1974.
😄, my man Isaac Curtis, with his patented behind the back spike from his knees. Without question, he's another criminally underrated NFL WR, who's underappreciated because of where he played during his career, as good as anyone else during his era...
Issac Curtis was an amazing WR. How can we have an NFL without a Curtis, Cliff Branch and Harold Jackson not in the HOF. Rice is GOAT? He didn’t play in the bump and run era. I think Paul Warfield, Charley Taylor would have something to say about that. Warfield and Taylor were artists in the open field after the catch. I’ve seen highlights of Warfield running full stride in double coverage, stopping on a dime and leaping in the air to make catches. Back in the day you had to earn it
'CIRCUS' Curtis was fluid with the jet-speed and moves to whip man-to-man coverage in ways Hall of Famers Harold Carmichael, Andre Reed, Marvin Harrison (to name but a few) could not beat man-to-man coverage. 'CIRCUS' Curtis was a burner down the sidelines and on the down-and-in patterns, but also had the sure hands and the size to contest for the football, and the desire to go for tough catches over the middle. Too bad his 1981 knee injury prevented him from being his vintage self on that 1981 Bengal team.
@@russellseilhamer4552 I have said before that if I was building a team that Warfield and Taylor would be my starting WRs. Someone else can have Rice. I'll take Branch and Alworth as the backups.
Miss the days of elbow pads and wrist bands
Man the artificial turf in those days was unforgiving!
Meanwhile... in Iran. A fateful day in US history, Nov. 4, 1979.
u are right, the beginning of the Iran Hostage Crisis that took 444 days to finally come to an end.
Big NFL-related joke of 1979 Iran Hostage crisis: Why don't we send Tampa Bay QB Doug Williams to Iran? He could overthrow the Ayotollah.
@@JAWrightonline Gosh, I don't even want to think what could have happened had we used "BAZOOKA" Wiliams' bazooka as such over there, or even had we threatened them with doing so......
Out of the 1979 season! This was the most memorable week of the whole season! The L.A Rams season turn on their dominate performance in the Kingdome against Seattle and Harold Carmichael record! Always wanted to see the Jets Packers game highlights!
10:15 these fans wanted Steve Pisarkiewicz? Lmao..
Giants weren't a great team then, but that defense could be wicked, at times.
@17:28-29, NY Giants LB#55 Brain Kelley was a smart player who seldom made a mistake. He didn't have great range or agility, but had improved his strength and did well against the inside running game. Kelley had the least ability compared to teammates Harry Carson and Brad Van Pelt, so Kelley had to get by on his smarts. Kelley made the defensive calls and led Carson in the right direction. As a pass-defender, Kelley made quick reads as well. @17:31-35, NYG DE#75 'MARATHON' MARTIN was too smart to be fooled by what could have been a fairly convincing play-action fake to and by Dorsett. A reply was made to fellow youtube user 'Anthony Brooks' reflecting the career of 'MARATHON' Martin in one of the other posted comments underneath this same video. @17:45-46, rookie QB Simms unphased by Cowboy pass-rusher and Simms' career was reviewed on a reply underneath "NFL 1979 Week 9", as it was a reply to fellow youtube user 'Nicky DePaola Entertainer'. @17:48-50, WR Johnny Perkins was big and stronger than most WRs and had good hands & speed. Most of Perkins' catches came in the short-to-intermediate range and caught more passes by out-muscling defenders than by out-running them. @18:04-05, Mendenhall caught in a Cowboy-vice of two exceptional pass-blockers in John Fitzgerald and Herbert Scott, but @18:11-12, Drew Pearson gets caught in a Giant-vice of a gambling type of CB#24 Terry Jackson and FS#25 Ray Oldham who got by in his 10-year NFL career on desire & determination and was more of an ideal SS (but Giants' SS#28 Beasley Reece was also more ideal at SS than FS), as the closer Oldham was to the action, the better, and there he helped separate Pearson from the football. @18:27-31, NYG RG#68 J.T. Turner was consistently solid in all areas of blocking at this point in his career as he was in his prime. In his latter years, his pass-blocking remained dependable. QB Simms remained very adept at throwing to RBs in his later years when those great mid-1980s Giants teams weren't great at WR. @18:58-19:01, Pearson makes it through Jackson and Oldham that time as the gambling Jackson was inconsistent and the more field that Oldham had to cover, the worse it was for him (that was why Oldham was more ideal at SS where he finished his career in 1980-'82 for Detroit, and not at FS). @19:21-24, NYG RDE#70 Gary Jeter stopped in his tracks by Cowboy great LT#67 Pat Donovan (and I suspect Donovan did the same to Jeter @18:06 though the view @18:06 was obstructed). @19:24-30, you see the talent in Gary Jeter (whose production somehow never equaled that talent). @19:31, Van Pelt strips Dorsett of the football but @19:32, Dorsett was no fumbler. @19:34-35, Cowboy WR#86 'CALIFORNIA QUAKE' Johnson was an all-out player fully committed to blocking and should have been 1st-string over Tony Hill. @19:38-39, Oldham needed that desire & determination to tackle Dorsett.
Randy Gradishar should really be in the HOF
Couple of back 2 back highlights at 5:00 sparked the thought.
Randy Grdishar was a mobile diagnostician who was always in the right place and the right time and had angles of pursuit down to rudimentary geometry, and made plays all over the field. Gradishar had an overload of feel & instincts, and processed plays with computer-like efficiency, and was also physically dominant and shed & filled with authority. Gradishar was an all-time great.
Steelers peaked January 20, 1980! Go STEELERS!
Denver's Orange Crush defense was great this season, but that orange team in Tampa was better.
Raiders won super bowl
Prime interest rate in fall of 1979, 15% ,thanks Jimmy Carter!
No politics on this NFL clip
Love watching the Packers lose!
"They could have won, but, like almost always, they DID NOT!!
15:50-these were the days of not only tear-away jerseys, but also mesh. They were most commonly (and best) worn by the Eagles. I believe Ron Jaworski donned his at "the Vet" in that chilly NFC championship win over the Cowboys the following season.
Been a Seahawks fan for years and it stumps me in this 1979 clip against the Rams of their Mascot. I don't remember him in that outfit. What was his name if anyone knows? It looks hilarious. I wonder if it is just some staff member or someone who obtained that costume and they let on the field to cheer the crowd in that thing. Lol.
John Stallworth had 3.95 40 speed.
His speed was underrated-he was deceptively fast.
@@arthurbishop3173 John Stallworth was fast & fluid, a smooth technician whose precise routes, surgical hands and great body control made the Steeler passing game a successful operation well into the 1980s. He could move the chains, make great adjustments and sky for the ball, hit the big home run, and was elite blocking downfield or even blocking outside LBs well into his twilight years. He still made it all look so easy, going deep, or in traffic, or along the sidelines, or he would fight bump-&-running CBs on crisp short routes and for 8-yard buttonhooks and he know what he could always do after the catch.